LINCOLN, R.I. -- Two-hundred and eleven teachers have received notices that they could be laid off in a worst case scenario of budget problems and state aid losses, Supt. Georgia Fortunato told the School Committee Monday night.
But Fortunato emphasized that "we don't anticipate that anywhere near this amount will'" [...]
Saying he can save the state $1 million a year, Robert J. Healey announced Monday that he will return to the political fray this year and make a third run for lieutenant governor.
Should he win, he has the same plan he pitched the last time he ran: He'll take no' [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- Cranston's two high schools have together raised at least $2,500 for Haiti.
Four Cranston West students of Haitian descent, seniors Mirvine Azor and Esther Borgelin and sophomores Rebecca Mislin and Carlynn Pierre, partnered with two student groups -- SkillsUSA and Family, Career & Community Leaders of America -- [...]
Over the last six months or so, The Providence Foundation has been convening a group of what are being called Young Leaders (or Next Generation Leaders or New Leaders) to come up with the foundation’s mission statement for 2030. I have been among [...]
TAUNTON, Mass. -- A Fall River man was sentenced to 19 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge in connection to the February 2007 fatal stabbing of 28-year-old Jason Glover on Dwelly Street in Fall River.
Christopher Fisher, 24, will actually have to spend the next 23 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Lawyer Thomas W. Pearlman, an 82-year-old former Republican legislator and Providence councilman, was ordered Monday by the state Supreme Court to make $1,500 in restitution to former clients and to perform no less than 10 hours of community service.
In meting out its sanction, the high court [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller has reduced Blue Cross's proposed premium increases for its Direct Pay plans to an average of approximately 7 percent.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and the attorney general had agreed last month that a 9.5-percent [...]
By W. Zachary Malinowski
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. --The state police are pressing forward with a public corruption investigation into the administration of Mayor Charles D. Moreau.
Capt. David S. Neill, commander of the state police detective division, said on Monday that his department's Financial Crimes Unit is doubling the number of [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three teenagers who spat on and roughed up a family of four at Providence Place mall have been sentenced in Family Court to punishment varying from probation to a residential correctional program.
A 16-year-old youth who the police said is an associate of the Goonies street gang has [...]
The Health Department building will remain closed to the public Tuesday as employees and a cleanup company dig through the mess and assess the damage from a weekend flood.
Providence Journal / Andrew DickermanLINCOLN, R.I. - The wee hours of Friday morning was busy for security and police at Twin River.
The police arrested eight men after they got into a brawl at the Ocean Three gaming room at Twin River, according to the Lincoln police.
An hour later a [...]
Sorry for the short notice about this–although if you read our comments maybe you know already–but there’s a meeting tonight at 6pm at Capitol Ridge (the senior high-rise on Smith Street across from St. Patrick’s) to talk about the possibility of making Pleasant Valley Parkway one-way. We [...]
Providence Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Rudy Pauls holds his "Biggest Loser" shirt with Tiverton Middle School fifth-grade students Elias Skrops and Christopher Sylvia.
TIVERTON, R.I. -- Rudy Pauls, second-place finisher in the last season of "The Biggest Loser," visited Tiverton [...]
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island has launched
a Making a Difference Campaign to raise $100,000 by asking each student, faculty and staff member to contribute $5 for relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti.
Donation booths have been set up around in the Memorial Union and [...]
The topline figures in last week's WPRI-TV poll were not great news for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, as he tries to outmanuever Treasurer Frank Caprio for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The poll gave Caprio higher job performance ratings and had him virtually tied with independent Lincoln Chafee in a general [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A show-cause hearing will be held this evening to determine if 848 Martini Lounge & Park Café at the city's historic Park Theatre violated the terms of its licenses.
Police Chief Marco Palombo Jr. said the department called for the show-cause hearing following a Jan. 31 [...]
Jef has posted the 3 proposals for the Wickenden St. intersection that will replace the area that was under the old 195 overpass. RIDOT deserves a lot of credit for listening to an initial volley of complaints about their earlier proposal — which was too suburban, and focused on [...]
AP photo / Kerry Rafanelli
In this family photo provided by the Rafanelli family, Amanda Villeneuve, 21, holds her daughter, Anabelle Janik, 7 months, who both died in a fire Saturday in Warwick.
WARWICK, R.I. -- Warwick Fire Chief Kevin Sullivan and state Fire Marshal John E. Chartier [...]
You might’ve caught this ad during that football game that was on last night:
I know these ads are test-marketed to death, but how is this paranoid wignutty vision of an enviro-fascist dystopia supposed to help sell cars? Scare people into it? It almost made me hate environmentalists, and sure [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Tyler Baron had recently gotten out on parole for three robbery convictions.
But the police say he returned to his criminal habits Saturday afternoon, when he tried to rob two convenience stores by using a needle and syringe as a weapon. Baron was arraigned Monday in 6th District [...]
By Ray Henry
Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three candidates running for Rhode Island governor are promising to sign a gay marriage bill should it reach their desk if they are elected.
Marriage Equality Rhode Island solicited the promise from Attorney General Patrick Lynch and General Treasurer Frank Caprio, both [...]
US wants out of suit over Chinese detainee's death - wtop.com
Barack Obama has an eye for talent—and it’s pointed at Rhode Island.
This weekend, Obama appointed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which describes its mission as connecting people through various arts and cultural tourism. Lahiri [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Io05fTLSg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqgtb3Nby4
They seemed to get better after they warmed up, like the Saints.
[...]SCITUATE, R.I. - - Someone broke into Cindy's Diner and Restaurant over the weekend, smashed the cash register and stole 244 scratch lottery tickets worth $369, according to the Scituate police.
The incident happened sometime after 8 p.m. Saturday, when the diner at 46 Hartford Ave. near the Johnston line [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- It's fine-free week at the Cranston Public Library.
Return any overdue Cranston Public Library materials -- only Cranston library materials -- at any of the city's library locations through Feb. 14 and pay no fines.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Gasoline prices in Rhode Island slipped one cent over the past week, marking the third week the price has fallen, according to AAA Southern New England.
The price has dropped six cents over the three-week period, AAA says.
The average price regular unleaded gasoline is $2.719 cents per gallon [...]
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- Two Providence teenagers have been arrested after an armed robbery at a Domino's pizza parlor early Monday morning.
Employees at the Domino's on 19 West Main Rd. called police just before 2 a.m., saying that two masked men wearing dark clothes stormed in with a gun and [...]
RI Secretary of State Ralph Mollis this morning released the 2010 Election Calendar (pdf), which provides the key dates and deadlines for voters and candidates.
“I had the privilege of overseeing Rhode Island’s record-breaking elections in 2008," Mollis said in a statement. "More Rhode Islanders registered to vote and more [...]
Sales of 90-day supplies of medicines at drug stores helped push up fourth quarter profits at CVS Caremark Corp. by 11 percent, the Woonsocket-based company reported Monday.
CVS Caremark said it earned $1.05 billion, or 74 cents per share. That's up from $949 million, or 65 cents per [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) -- Pawtucket's Hasbro Inc., the nation's second biggest toymaker, said Monday that sales of action figures and other toys aimed at boys as well as strong entertainment and licensing revenue helped push its fourth-quarter profit sharply higher.
The owner of the Transformers, Tonka and Playskool brands also said [...]
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press Writers
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) -- The deputy fire marshal of the town where a power plant explosion killed five people tells The Associated Press that no one is believed buried in the rubble.
The comments by Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano on Monday mean the death toll [...]
By PAT EATON-ROBB and JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press Writers
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) -- An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers and injuring a [...]
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A local man accused of stabbing the owner of a convenience store during a robbery Saturday evening was arraigned Monday in Kent County District Court and held on $100,000 surety bail.
Robert Ruggieri, 58, of 85 Briggs St., Apt. 505, is due back in court April 12 [...]
Live local radar
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- We can expect partly sunny skies and a temperature of 32 degrees Monday, but it looks like we'll get hit with a storm later this week.
A northwest wind of 9 to 16 mph. with gusts up to 20 mph. will make' [...]
On the local front:
A year ago today:
One mast, measuring 80 feet in length and 13 feet in diameter, rested on a barge docked at Quonset Point in North Kingstown. Another was nearby on the old Carrier Pier, waiting to be shipped out. The two pieces are part of a [...]
